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Congress  on  Christian  Work  in  Latin  America 


BULLETIN  No.  4  August,  1915 


Issued  by  the  Committee  on  Co-operation  in  Latin  America 

156  Fifth  Avenue 


Room  806 


New  York 


CHANGE  OF  NAME  OF  THE  CONFERENCE 

Acting  on  suggestions  from  the  field,  and  after  full  correspondence  with 
the  interested  Boards,  the  Committee  on  Arrangements  has  decided  to  change 
the  name  of  the  Panama  gathering  from  “Latin- America  Missionary  Conference” 
to  “Congress  on  Christian  Work  in  Latin- America.”  This  name  is  much 
more  acceptable  and  better  understood  by  our  Latin-American  friends,  and  it 
is  believed  that  it  will  immediately  challenge  the  sympathetic  attention  of  a 
much  larger  number  of  people  in  these  countries  in  whose  interest  the  gathering 
is  held. 


THE  SPIRIT  OF  THE  CONGRESS  DEFINED 

“RESOLVED,  That  this  Conference  strongly  recom¬ 
mends  that  those  who  are  making  arrangements  for  the 
Panama  Congress,  as  well  as  all  writers  and  speakers  at  the 
Congress,  bear  in  mind  that,  if  the  best  and  most  lasting 
results  are  to  be  obtained,  while  frankly  facing  moral  and 
spiritual  conditions  which  call  for  missionary  work  in  Latin 
America,  and  while  presenting  the  Gospel  which  we  hold 
as  the  only  adequate  solution  of  the  problems  which  those 
conditions  present,  it  shall  be  the  purpose  of  the  Panama 
Congress  to  recognize  all  the  elements  of  truth  and  goodness 
in  any  form  of  religious  faith.  Our  approach  to  the  people 
shall  be  neither  critical  nor  antagonistic,  but  inspired  by  the 
teachings  and  example  of  Christ  and  that  charity  which 
thinketh  no  evil  and  rejoiceth  not  in  iniquity  but  rejoiceth 
in  the  truth. 

“In  the  matter  of  Christian  service,  we  will  welcome 
the  co-operation  of  any  who  are  willing  to  co-operate  in 
any  part  of  the  Christian  program.  We  should  not  de¬ 
mand  union  with  us  in  all  our  work  as  the  condition  of 
accepting  allies  for  any  part  of  it.” 


Thus  was  the  spirit  of  the  Panama  Congress  defined  by  a  most  important 
representative  meeting  of  the  Chairmen  of  the  eight  Commissions  and  members 
of  their  Executive  Committees,  with  the  Committee  of  Arrangements,  held  at 
Caldwell,  N.  J.,  June  9-10.  This  group  of  thirty-five  men  and  women  in¬ 
cluded  not  only  those  who  know  missions  from  the  theoretical  side,  but  also 
several  who  have  spent  long  periods  of  years  in  Latin  America,  men  who 
speak  Spanish  and  Portuguese  fluently,  one  of  the  Commission  Chairmen  being 
a  well-known  Latin-American. 

Dr.  John  R.  Mott  presided  at  all  the  sessions,  during  the  two  days.  In 
presenting  the  work  to  be  considered,  he  said  that  it  would  be  helpful  to 
imagine  the  Panama  and  Sectional  Conferences  past,  and  the  Commission 
Reports  already  in  the  hands  of  the  public,  and  try  to  foresee  the  results.  He 
suggested  that  there  would  issue  vastly  larger  plans  on  behalf  of  Latin  America, 
a  larger  understanding  of  its  people,  a  truer  science  of  the  expansion  of  pure 
Christianity  in  the  Latin-American  world,  a  larger  efficiency  and  a  better 
strategy,  larger  co-operation  and  unity,  a  more  commanding  vision  and  a  deeper 
sense  of  responsibility,  and,  finally,  a  far  larger  realization  of  the  superhuman 
in  this  undertaking.  The  object  of  the  two  days’  meetings  was  to  consider 
how  to  enlist  in  this  movement  the  people  who  can  do  most,  humanly  speaking, 
to  accomplish  our  end;  how  to  assemble  the  facts;  and  how  to  liberate  the 
necessary  spiritual  power. 

The  Executive  Secretary  stated  briefly  the  development  of  the  Panama 
Congress.  The  movement  began  at  the  Edinburgh  Conference,  in  1910.  The 
eight  Commissions  making  investigations  for  the  Panama  Congress  now  have 
215  members,  most  of  whom  have  long  been  students  of  Latin  America.  To 
date,  over  200  papers  have  been  sent  in  to  the  Commissions,  from  the  more 
than  600  correspondents.  Practically  all  the  Boards  intend  to  send  their  full 
quota  of  delegates  to  Panama,  and  applications  for  visitors’  privileges  are  being 
received  from  many  persons  prominent  in  Church  and  public  life.  For  enter¬ 
tainment  of  the  Congress,  the  Government  of  Panama  has  offered  the  National 
Institute  buildings,  for  day  meetings  and  dormitory  accommodations,  and  the 
new  National  Theatre  for  night  meetings.  It  will  be  easily  possible  to  care 
for  500  at  the  Congress.  Immediately  following  the  Panama  Congress,  groups 
of  strong  leaders  will  visit,  direct  from  Panama,  the  Sectional  Conferences: 
four  in  South  America,  two  in  the  West  Indies,  one  in  Central  America,  and 
one  in  Mexico.  The  personnel  of  these  groups  now  being  organized  Include 
such  leaders  as  Dr.  Arthur  J.  Brown,  Dr.  L.  C.  Barnes,  Miss  Belle  Bennett, 
Miss  Carrie  Carnahan,  C.  J.  Ewald,  Bishop  Kinsolving,  Bishop  A.  S.  Lloyd, 
Bishop  W.  F.  Oldham,  Prof.  Andres  Osuna,  President  C.  T.  Paul,  and 
Dr.  C.  L.  Thompson. 


The  conference  then  took  up  the  first  drafts  of  the  eight  Commission 
Reports,  and  discussed  very  thoroughly  the  spirit  and  substance  of  each  one. 
From  a  mechanical  viewpoint,  it  was  arranged  that  the  whole  eight  Reports 
would  be  comprehensive  and  harmonious ;  from  the  spiritual  viewpoint,  this 
conference  made  its  most  significant  contribution  in  its  endeavor  to  discover 
the  attitude  that  the  Panama  Congress  must  take,  and  the  spirit  that  must  be 
breathed  into  all  the  Reports,  if  Christian  work  in  Latin  America  is  to  be  made 
adequate  and  effective. 

As  the  Report  of  the  Commission  on  Message  and  Method  will  embody 
what  is  most  important  in  this  vital  study,  its  Chairman,  Bishop  Wm.  Cabell 
Brown,  who  has  spent  twenty-three  years  in  Brazil,  and  Dr.  Charles  L. 
Thompson,  Chairman  of  the  Commission  on  Co-operation  and  Unity,  were  asked 
to  draft  a  resolution  that  would  express  the  crystallized  conviction  of  those 
present  concerning  this  question.  The  report  of  this  committee  after  careful 
discussion  was  approved  with  remarkable  unanimity,  and  with  a  profound  con¬ 
viction  that  it  had  been  framed  under  Divine  Guidance.  All  voiced  their 
assurance  that  it  expresses  the  wisest  attitude  and  the  most  effective  approach, 
as  well  as  the  true  Christian  spirit.  After  Bishop  Oldham  had  led  in  prayer 
the  resolution  was  unanimously  adopted,  as  quoted  above. 

Every  one  present  went  away  ready  to  help  in  obtaining  the  hearty  co¬ 
operation  of  North  Americans  and  Latin  Americans  alike  in  a  program  that 
is  sympathetic,  constructive  and  far-sighted. 

The  following  were  present:  Mrs.  Anna  R.  Atwater,  Dr.  L.  C.  Barnes, 
Prof.  Harlan  P.  Beach,  M  iss  Belle  H.  Bennett,  Dr.  Arthur  J.  Brown,  Bishop 
Wm.  Cabell  Brown  (Brazil),  Dr.  S.  H.  Chester,  Mr.  E.  T.  Colton,  Dr. 
Ed.  F.  Cook,  Mr.  Morris  Ehnes,  Dr.  Milton  Greene  (Cuba),  Mrs.  Ida  W. 
Harrison,  Mr.  Harry  Wade  Hicks,  Mr.  Chas.  D.  Hurrey  (Argentina),  Mr. 
S.  G.  Inman  (Mexico),  Dr.  John  M.  Kyle  (Brazil),  Bishop  Walter  R. 
Lambuth,  Bishop  Arthur  S.  Lloyd,  Prof.  Donald  C.  MacLaren  (Brazil), 
Prof.  Paul  Monroe,  Dr.  John  R.  Mott,  Bishop  Wm.  F.  Oldham,  Prof. 
Andres  Osuna  (Mexico),  Dr.  Cornelius  Patton,  Presidest  Chas.  T.  Paul, 
Dr.  Gerhard  J.  Schilling  (Argentina),  Dr.  Chas.  L.  Thompson,  Mr.  Fennell 
P.  Turner,  Mr.  Eugene  E.  Vann  (Brazil),  Mr.  John  H.  Warner  (Brazil), 
Dr.  Stanley  White. 

OPPORTUNITIES  AND  PURPOSES  OF  THE  CONGRESS 

We  are  greatly  indebted  to  many  friends  of  wide  experience  who  are 
studying  with  us  the  large  problems  of  the  coming  Congress.  Not  only  do 
we  find  religious  leaders  of  great  experience  in  international  and  interdenomina¬ 
tional  matters,  but  business  men,  diplomats  and  educationalists,  everywhere 


trusted  as  forward-looking  men  of  international  mind  anxious  to  help  in  a 
movement  which  promises  to  go  so  deeply  into  the  vital  problems  of  enlarging 
international  brotherhood  between  peoples  of  long  mutual  misunderstandings, 
because  of  failure  to  know  the  deepest  and  best  in  one  another. 

The  president  of  one  of  the  largest  banks  in  North  America,  who  has 
large  business  relations  and  many  personal  friends  all  over  Latin  America,  writes: 

“It  would  seem  that  the  date  set  for  this  Congress  is  opportune, 
and  that  your  plan  for  co-operation  is  sound  and  promising  of  success. 

“Pan-Americanism  should,  of  course,  mean  much  more  than 
the  mere  development  of  commercial  opportunities,  and  the  establish¬ 
ment  of  trade  interests.  It  should  mean  the  development  of  a  broader 
and  better  understanding  between  the  nations  of  the  two  Americas. 

The  present  is  an  opportune  time  for  extending  old  and  establishing 
new  friendly  relations  with  the  nations  of  both  South  and  Central 
America,  and  with  the  individuals  who  constitute  those  nations.  The 
peaceful  intentions  of  this  nation  and  our  worthy  national  ambitions 
have  been  impressed  upon  our  southern  neighbors  as  never  before. 

They  are  seeing  that  the  motives  underlying  our  relations  with  them 
are  not  imperialistic.  If  the  recognition  of  this  attitude  by  the 
southern  republics  is  possible  along  political  and  commercial  lines,  I 
see  no  reason  why  there  should  not  be  the  same  attitude  and  recog¬ 
nition  in  the  development  of  our  higher  relations. 

“Co-operation  in  its  truest  and  best  form  is  fundamentally  im¬ 
portant  in  producing  the  proper  measure  of  success.  In  the  South 
and  Central  American  countries,  we  find  a  different  people.  In  the 
light  of  previous  experience,  I  do  not  feel  that  our  efforts  will  be 
successful  if  we  endeavor  to  force  upon  our  southern  neighbors  our 
ideas  of  education  and  of  religion  and  creed,  but  I  am  sure  that  we 
can  help  reciprocally  in  promoting  the  religious  and  educational  con¬ 
ditions  in  those  countries,  and  in  bringing  about  a  more  thorough 
understanding  of  the  aspirations  of  each.  We  have  much  to  learn, 
as  well  as  to  teach,  and  our  efforts  in  any  direction  will  not  be 
properly  productive  if  we  do  not  learn  this  lesson.  Through  a 
proper  recognition  of  this,  we  shall  be  able  to  gain  the  confidence  of 
the  South  American  nations,  and  promote  moral  values  and  national 
and  personal  ideals. 

“I  feel  that  the  Congress  will  be  productive  of  much  good, 
and  that  it  will  be  the  beginning  of  a  rapid  advancement  along  the 
lines  indicated  by  your  Bulletin.” 


Another  friend,  who  has  been  most  intimately  associated  with  the  prepara¬ 
tion  of  the  Congress,  expresses  himself  as  follows,  as  to  its  purpose: 

“Realizing  the  ever-increasing  interdependence  of  the  civiliza¬ 
tions  of  the  world,  and  especially  those  of  North  and  South  America, 
the  Congress  at  Panama  has  been  called  for  the  purpose: 

“First — Of  obtaining  a  more  accurate  mutual  knowledge  of 
the  history,  resources,  achievements  and  ideals  of  the  people  of  the 
two  Americas. 

“Second — To  reveal  the  fact  that  these  countries  may  mutually 
serve  each  other  by  contributing  the  best  in  their  civilizations  to  each 
other’s  life. 

“Third — To  discover  and  to  correct  such  defects  and  weak¬ 
nesses  in  character  as  may  be  hindering  the  growth  of  these  nations. 

“Fourth — ;To  unite  in  a  common  purpose  to  strengthen  the 
moral,  social  and  religious  forces  that  are  now  working  for  the  better¬ 
ment  of  these  countries,  and  to  create  the  desire  for  these  things  where 
absent. 

“Fifth — To  discover  the  underlying  principles  upon  which  true 
national  prosperity  and  stability  depend,  and  to  consider  ways  and 
means  by  which  these  principles  may  be  put  in  action  and  made 
effective.” 

With  both  of  these  friends,  the  Committee  arranging  for  the  Congress 
is  in  the  deepest  accord. 


NOTES 

_ We  are  greatly  indebted  to  Bishop  Hasse  and  the  Rev.  Alan  Ewbank  of  the  British 

Corresponding  Committee  for  the  preparation  of  a  prayer  pamphlet  for  the  use  of  those  who 
are  remembering  the  Congress  in  their  daily  intercessions.  It  contains  suggestive  topics  and 
prayers  for  each  day  in  the  week,  with  helpful  quotations  from  great  Church  leaders,  con¬ 
cerning  the  power  of  prayer  in  guiding  aright  the  preparation  and  deliberations  of  gatherings 
charged  with  such  large  responsibilities  as  the  Panama  Congress.  Copies  can  be  obtained 
gratis  by  addressing  the  Secretary  of  the  Congress. 

Committees  of  Arrangement  for  Sectional  Conferences  have  now  been  organized  and 
are  actively  at  work  in  Lima,  Santiago,  Buenos  Aires,  Rio  de  Janeiro  and  Havana.  As  it 
has  been  recently  decided  to  hold  conferences  also  in  Porto  Rico  and  Central  America, 
they  will  no  doubt  soon  be  organized.  These  local  Committees  are  not  only  working  faith¬ 
fully  for  their  local  conferences,  but  are  giving  Invaluable  aid  in  the  preparation  of  Com¬ 
mission  reports  for  the  Panama  Congress.  The  Committee  in  charge  of  the  Santiago  Con¬ 
ference  send  us  minutes  of  their  weekly  meetings,  held  ever  since  its  organization. 
The  chairman.  Dr.  W.  E.  Browning  has  been  relieved  of  his  other  duties  to  give  his  whole 
time  to  this  work.  In  the  next  Bulletin  we  hope  to  describe  more  fully  the  important  work 
of  the  Sectional  Conferences. 


The  growth  of  interest  in  the  Congress  can  be  judged  somewhat  by  the  expansion 
of  the  Executive  office.  At  first  it  consisted  of  a  desk  in  the  office  of  another  secretary. 
Later  on,  by  the  courtesy  of  the  Presbyterian  Board,  it  was  given  a  large  room  to  itself, 
and  more  recently  it  has  been  found  necessary  to  add  another  room  and  materially  in¬ 
crease  the  clerical  force.  If  it  were  not  for  the  privileges  enjoyed  of  using  this  same 
Board’s  Filing  and  Treasurer’s  Departments,  and  for  the  copying  work  done  by  an  outside 
firm,  much  larger  accommodations  would  be  needed.  On  a  single  mail  boat  from  Chile 
last  month  we  received  over  two  hundred  pages  of  typewritten  material  for  the  various 
commission  reports.  One  contribution  from  the  chairman  of  their  Sectional  Conference  con¬ 
sisted  of  a  hundred  pages  of  valuable  material  for  the  Commission  on  Education.  Other 
fields  have  been  pouring  material  in  ai  continuous  stream  into  the  office.  All  this  must  be 

copied  and  carbons  sent  to  each  member  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Commission 

for  which  it  is  intended,  and  td  any  others  to  whose  investigations  it  is  particularly  pertinent. 
It  is  safe  to  say  that  never  before  has  such  a  mass  of  material  from  expert  sources  been 
gathered  together  on  the  religious,  educational  and  social  conditions  of  Latin-America.  Be¬ 
sides  serving  as  a  basis  for  Commission  reports,  it  is  planned  to  present  the  Missionary 

Research  Library  of  New  York  with  copies  of  all  these  contributions  and  documents  col¬ 
lected  so  they  may  be  continually  accessible  to  investigators  of  these  subjects. 

It  is  generally  considered  quite  impossible  to  get  a  full  committee  meeting  in  New 
York.  Yet  as  this  Bulletin  goes  to  press  there  is  in  session  the  largest  meeting  of  the 

Committee  of  Arrangements  ever  held  with  the  following  members  and  visitors  present: 

Messrs.  Brown  (A.  J.),  Hurrey,  Inman,  Lloyd,  Haven,  Mott,  Pierson,  Thompson, 
Turner,  Wood  (John  W.),  Colton,  Fahs,  Morehouse,  Sanders,  Beaver,  White  (Stanley) 
and  W’arner.  A  majority  of  these  have  made  special  trips  from  their  summer  headquarters 
involving  real  sacrifices  to  be  present. 

Besides  this  meeting,  the  Executive  Committees  of  the  Commissions  on  Education,  The 
Church  in  the  Field,  and  Co-operation  and  Unity,  and  the  Editorial  Committee  are  having 
meetings  in  New  York  the  same  week.  This  is  only  typical  of  the  activities  during  this 
warm  weather.  In  fact  it  would  be  difficult  for  any  one  who  is  not  called  to  attend  all 
these  meetings  and  take  a  share  in  the  assigned  work  as  is  the  Executive  Secretary,  to 
realize  what  an  enormous  amount  of  labor  is  being  expended  in  the  investigations  of  the 
Commissions  and  other  preparations  for  the  Congress. 

A  little  group  of  the  Commission  on  Co-operation  and  Unity  have  had  three  meetings 
of  several  days  each  at  156  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  during  the  last  few  weeks. 
An  enormous  amount  of  work  has  been  done  on  this  report  already,  and  yet  they  propose 
two  more  weeks  of  close  attention  before  they  release  it  for  criticism  of  others. 

The  Commission  on  Education  is  fortunate  in  counting  among  its  membership  some 
of  the  leading  educators  of  North  and  Latin-America.  Its  Executive  Committee  was 
recently  the  ,  guests  of  Dean  Russell  at  Teachers  College,  when  great  progress  was  made 
toward  the  preparation  of  the  report.  Ther^  were  present  Prof.  Donald  MacLaren,  former 
president  Mackenzie  College,  Pres.  Henry  Churchill  King,  Oberlin;  Prof.  Ernest  D. 
Burton,  University  of  Chicago;  Dean  James  E.  Russell,  Teachers  College;  Prof.  Paul  Monroe, 
Editor  Encyclopedia  on  Education;  Dr.  Thomas  Nicholson,  Sect.  Board  of  Education; 
M.  E.  Church;  Profs.  J.  T.  Moses  and  E.  E.  Vann  formerly  in  educational  work  in 
Mexico  and  Brazil,  and  the  Executive  Secretary  of  the  Congress.  Sections  of  the  report 
were  assigned  to  each  one,  to  be  submitted  to  a  later  meeting  at  the  same  place.  One 

of  the  committee  is  to  spend  several  days  in  the'  librariesl  in  Washington  and  the  National 

Bureau  of  Education,  collecting  data  for  the  Commission. 

The  Proof  Sheets  of  the  preliminary  drafts  of  the  Eight  Commission  Reports  will 
soon  be  ready  for  mailing  to  members  of  Commissions  and  others  who  are  asked  to 

criticise  them.  An  Editorial  Committee,  consisting  of  Dr.  Frank  K.  Sanders,  Mr.  C.  H. 
Fahs,  Bishop  A.  S.  Lloyd  and  Prof.  Andres  Osuna,  are  passing  on  these  reports  as 
received  from  the  chairmen,  before  they  are  turned  over  to  the  printers  for  the 

preliminary  proof  sheets.  Three  reports  are  in  the  hands  of  the  Editing  Committee  at  this 
writing,  and  it  is  expected  that  the  proof  sheets  of  these  will  be  mailed  by  August  21st, 
and  the  remaining  five  by  September  1st.  All  proof  sheets  with  criticisms  must  be  returned 
in  time  for  thorough  consideration  before  the  joint  meeting  of  chairmen,  November  16th 
and  17th,  when  the  final  drafts  will  be  determined  upon.  Those  outside  of  South  America 
should  return  these  preliminary  drafts  by  October  1st 


Standing  Committee  on  Co-operation  in  Latin  America 

*(The  members  of  this  permanent  committee  are  selected  by  their  respec¬ 
tive  Boards;  it  has  chosen  the  ‘‘Committee  on  Arrangements”  to  develop  the  Congress.) 

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The  Rev.  S.  G.  Inman  (Exec.  Sec’y) . Christian  Woman’s  Bd.  of  Miss. 

The  Rev.  Enoch  F.  Bell . Am.  Bd.  of  Comm,  for  For.  Miss. 

Mr.  F.  L.  Brown . World’s  S.  S.  Association. 

Miss  Carrie  J.  Carnahan . Worn.  For.  Miss’y  Soc.  M.  E. 

The  Rev.  S.  H.  Chester,  D.D . Ex.  Com.  For.  Miss.  Pres.  U.  S. 

Mr.  E.  T.  Colton . International  Com.  Y.  M.  C.  A. 

The  Rev.  Ed.  F.  Cook,  D.D . Bd.  of  Miss.  M.  E.  South. 

The  Rev.  J.  H.  Franklin,  D.D . Am.  Bap.  For.  Miss.  Soc. 

The  Rev.  W.  I.  Haven,  D.D . American  Bible  Society 

Miss  Mable  Head . Woman’s  Missionary  Council,  M.  E.  South. 

The  Rev.  S.  S.  Hough,  D.D . For.  Miss.  Soc.  Un.  Br.  in  Christ. 

The  Rev.  A.  McLean,  LL.D . For.  Christian  Miss’y  Soc. 

The  Rev.  M.  T.  Morrill . Bd.  of  For.  Miss.  Christian  Ch. 

The  Rev.  T.  B.  Neely,  D.D . Bd.  Home  Miss,  and  Ch.  Ex.  M.  E.  Ch. 

The  Rev.  T.  B.  Ray,  D.D . For.  Miss.  Bd.  Sou.  Bap.  Con. 

The  Rev.  C.  J.  Ryder,  D.D . Amer.  Miss’y  Association 

The  Rev.  C.  I.  Scofield,  D.D . Central  Amer.  Mission 

The  Rev.  George  Smith  . Evan.  Union  of  S.  A. 

Elder  W.  A.  Spicer . Genl.  Conf.  Seventh  Day  Adventists 

Miss  Clarissa  H.  Spencer . Nat’l  Bd.  Y.  W.  C.  A. 

The  Rev.  C.  E.  Tebbetts . Am.  Friends  Bd.  of  For.  Miss. 

The  Rev.  C.  L.  Thompson,  D.D . Bd.  Home  Miss.  Pres.  U.  S.  A. 

Mrs.  K.  S.  Westfall . Woman’s  Am.  Bap.  Home  Miss.  Soc. 

The  Rev.  J.  D.  Williams,  D.D . Christian  and  Miss’y  Alliance 


Committee  on  Arrangements  for  the  Panama  Congress 


»The  Rev.  W.  F.  OLDHAM,  D.D.,  Chairman 
*The  Rev.  S.  G.  INMAN,  Secretary 


The  Rev.  L.  C.  BARNES,  D.D. 

*The  Rev.  ARTHUR  J.  BROWN,  D.D. 
Mr.  FRANK  L.  BROWN 
»The  Rev.  W.  I.  HAVEN,  D.D. 

Mr.  HARRY  WADE  HICKS 
*Mr.  CHAS.  D.  HURREY 

(Those  whose  names  are  starred 


The  Rt.  Rev.  ARTHUR  S.  LLOYD,  D.D. 
^JOHN  R.  MOTT,  LL.D. 

*Mr.  EBEN  E.  OLCOTT 
Mr.  DELAVAN  L.  PIERSON 
The  Rev.  C.  L.  THOMPSON,  D.D. 

»Mr.  FENNELL  P.  TURNER 

constitute  the  Executive  Committee) 


Members  of  British  Corresponding  Committee 

Sir  Andrew  Wingate,  K.C.I.E.,  Chairman,  London. 

The  Rev.  John  H.  Ritson,  M.A.,  Secretary,  Secretary  of  the  British  and 
Foreign  Bible  Society,  London. 

The  Rev.  C.  W.  Andrews,  B.  A.,  of  the  Wesleyan  Methodist  Missionary 
Society,  London. 

John  Davidson,  Esq.,  of  The  Evangelical  Union  of  South  America, 
London. 

Charles  Earle,  Esq.,  of  the  South  American  Missionary  Society,  London. 

The  Rev.  Alan  Ewbank,  Secretary  of  the  South  American  Missionary 
Society,  London. 

The  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop  Hasse,  D.D.,  of  the  Moravian  Missions,  London. 

The  Rev.  C.  J.  Klesel,  Secretary  of  the  Moravian  Missions,  London. 

Charles  Hay  Walker,  Esq.,  J.P.,  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of 
The  Evangelical  Union  of  South  America,  London. 

Peter  F.  Wood,  Esq.,  of  the  Wesleyan  Methodist  Missionary  Society, 
London. 


Provisional  List  of  Members  of  Commissions^ 

I.  SURVEY  AND  OCCUPATION 
Chairman 

Mr.  E.  T.  COLTON,  Secretary,  International  Committee  of  Young  Men’s  Christian 
Associations,  New  York. 

V  ice-Chairman 

The  Rev.  C.  W.  ANDREWS,  B.A.,  Wesleyan  Methodist  Missionary  Society,  London. 

Executive  Committee 

Professor  HARLAN  P.  BEACH,  D.D.,  Yale  University,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

The  Rev.  HENRY  K.  CARROLL,  D.D.,  Secretary,  Federal  Council  of  the  Churches 
of  Christ  in  America,  Washington,  D.  C. 

The  Rev.  H.  PAUL  DOUGLASS,  D.D.,  Secretary,  American  Missionary  Associa¬ 
tion,  New  York. 

Mr.  MORRIS  W.  EHNES,  Secretary,  Missionary  Education  Movement,  New  York. 
The  Rev.  JOHN  FOX,  D.D.,  Secretary,  American  Bible  Society,  New  York. 
Professor  EDMUND  D.  SOPER,  LL.D.,  Drew  Theological  Seminary,  Madison,.  N.  J. 

Mr.  ROBERT  E.  SPEER,  Secretary,  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  the  U.  S.  A.,  New  York. 

The  Rev.  JOHN  W.  BUTLER,  D.D.,  Superintendent,  Methodist  Episcopal  Mission, 
Mexico  City. 

Dr.  JUSTO  CUBILO,  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Uruguay,  Montevideo. 

*A  few  of  those  listed  here  have  not  yet  been  heard  from  as  to  their  ac¬ 
ceptance  of  membership. 


The  Rev.  S.  D.  DAUGHERTY,  Synodical  Missionary  Superintendent,  Evangelical 
Lutheran  Church,  Philadelphia. 

The  Rev.  PHILO  W.  DRURY,  Superintendent,  Mission  of  United  Brethren  in  Christ, 
Ponce,  Porto  Rico. 

Mr.  C.  J.  EWALD,  Secretary,  South  American  Federation  of  Young  Men’s  Christian 
Associations,  Montevideo. 

Professor  D.  J.  FLEMING,  Union  Theological  Seminary,  New  York. 

Mr.  W.  B.  GRUBB,  South  American  Missionary  Society,  Los  Urundeles,  F.C.C.N., 
Argentina. 

The  Rev.  JAMES  HAYTER,  American  Bible  Society,  Guatemala  City. 

A.  W.  HOOKER,  M.D.,  Southern  Baptist  Convention,  Guadalajara,  Mexico. 

The  Rt.  Rev.  H.  R.  HULSE,  D.D.,  Protestant  Episcopal  Bishop  of  Cuba,  Havana,  Cuba. 
The  Rev.  WILLIAM  KEECH,  The  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society,  San  Salvador. 
The  Rev.  FRANCIS  G.  PENZOTTI,  American  Bible  Society,  Buenos  Aires. 

The  Rev.  EDUARDO  PEREIRA,  Sao  Paulo,  Brazil. 

The  Rev.  THEODORE  S.  POND,  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  U.  S.  A.,  Caracas, 
Venezuela. 

The  Rev.  W.  E.  REED,  Ecuador  Coast  Mission,  Guayaquil,  Ecuador. 

The  Rev.  JOHN  RITCHIE,  Evangelical  Union  of  South  America,  Lima. 

The  Rev.  GEORGE  SMITH,  Secretary,  Evangelical  Union  of  South  America,  Toronto. 

Mr.  A.  R.  STARK,  British  and  Foreign  Bible  Society,  Valparaiso,  Chile. 

The  Rev.  H.  C.  TUCKER,  American  Bible  Society,  Rio  de  Janeiro. 

CHARLES  HAY  WALKER,  Esq.,  J.P.,  Chairman,  Board  of  Directors,  Evangelical  Union 
of  South  America,  London. 

II.  MESSAGE  AND  METHOD 
Chairman 

The  Rt.  Rev.  WILLIAM  CABELL  BROWN,  D.D.,  Protestant  Episcopal  Bishop  Co¬ 
adjutor  of  Virginia,  Richmond. 

Vice-Chairmen 

President  W.  DOUGLAS  MACKENZIE,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Hartford  Theological  Seminary, 
Hartford,  Conn. 

Sir  ANDREW  WINGATE,  K.C.I.E.,  London. 

Secretary 

The  Rev.  J.  H.  McLEAN,  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  U.  S.  A.,  Santiago  de  Chile. 

Executive  Committee 

The  Rev.  ED.  F.  COOK,  D.D.,  Secretary,  Board  of  Missions,  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  South,  Nashville,  Tenn. 

The  Rev.  WILLIAM  F.  OLDHAM,  D.D.,  Secretary,  Board  of  Foreign  Missions, 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  New  York. 

President  CHARLES  T.  PAUL,  Ph.D.,  College  of  Missions,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

The  Rev.  MANUEL  ANDOJAR,  Superintendent,  Methodist  Episcopal  Mission,  San  Juan, 
Porto  Rico. 


The  Rev.  J.  L.  BRUCE,  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South,  Bello  Horizonte,  Brazil. 

The  Rev.  J.  S.  CHEAVENS,  Southern  Baptist  Convention,  Saltillo,  Mexico. 

Mr.  MYRON  CLARK,  General  Secretary,  National  Committee  of  the  Young  Men’s 
Christian  Associations  of  Brazil,  Rio  de  Janeiro. 

The  Rev.  J.  G.  DALE,  Superintendent,  Associate  Reformed  Presbyterian  Mission  in  Mexico. 

The  Rev.  J.  W.  FLEMING,  D.D.,  Pastor,  St.  Andrew’s  Scotch  Presbyterian  Church, 
Buenos  Aires. 

Mr.  E.  J.  D.  HERCUS,  M.A.,  Evangelical  Union  of  South  America,  Buenos  Aires. 

The  Rt.  Rev.  LUCIEN  LEE  KINSOLVING,  D.D.,  Protestant  Episcopal  Bishop  of 
Brazil,  Rio  Grande  do  Sul. 

The  Rev.  R.  F.  LENINGTON,  Moderator,  Synod  of  Brazilian  Presbyterian  Church, 
Curityba,  Brazil. 

The  Rev.  ARCADIO  MORALES,  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  U.  S.  A.,  Mexico  City. 
The  Rev.  G.  CAMPBELL  MORGAN,  D.D.,  London. 

The  Rev.  F.  S.  ONDERDONK,  Superintendent,  The  Texas  Mexican  Mission,  San  Antonio, 
Texas. 

Dr.  JOSE  DE  LA  RUA,  Buenos  Aires. 

The  Rev.  JAMES  F.  SMITH,  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  U.  S.,  Ytii,  Brazil. 

The  Rev.  J.  W.  TARBOUX,  President,  Granbery  College,  Juiz  de  Fora,  Brazil. 

The  Rev.  W.  CHARLES  K.  TORRE,  British  and  Foreign  Bible  Society,  Buenos  Aires. 
The  Rev.  ALEJANDRO  TREVINO,  Templo  Bautista,  Monterey,  Mexico. 

III.  EDUCATION 
Chairman 

Professor  DONALD  C.  MacLAREN,  Former  President  of  Mackenzie  College,  New  York. 

Vice-Chairmen 

Professor  ERNEST  D.  BURTON,  D.D.,  University  of  Chicago,  Chicago,  Ill. 

President  HENRY  CHURCHILL  KING,  D.D..  LL.D.,  Oberlin  College,  Oberlin,  Ohio. 

Secretary 

Professor  JASPER  T.  MOSES,  Former  President  Christian  Institute  (Monterey,  Mexico), 
Pueblo,  Colo. 

Executive  Committee 

Professor  PAUL  MONROE,  Ph.D.,  LL.D.,  Columbia  University,  New  York. 

The  Rev.  THOMAS  NICHOLSON,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Secretary,  Board  of  Education, 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  New  York. 

Dean  JAMES  E.  RUSSELL,  Ph.D.,  LL.D.,  Teachers  College,  New  York. 

The  Rev.  EUGENE  E.  VANN,  Former  Professor  in  Granbery  College  (Brazil), 
New  York. 

Dr.  AMARANTO  A.  ABELEDO,  Universidad  Nacional  de  la  Plata,  Buenos  Aires. 

Mr.  G.  I.  BABCOCK,  National  Secretary,  Young  Men’s  Christian  Association,  Mexico. 

Professor  ERASMO  BRAGA,  Seminario  Theologlco  da  Egreja  Presbyteriana,  Campinas, 
Brazil. 


The  Rev.  WEBSTER  E.  BROWNING,  Ph.D.,  D.D.,  Principal,  El  Institulo  Ingles, 
Santiago  de  Chile. 

Professor  WILLIAM  OWEN  CARVER,  Th.D.,  Southern  Baptist  Theological  Seminary, 
Louisville,  Ky. 

President  R.  H.  CROSSFIELD,  Ph.D.,  Transylvania  University,  Lexington,  Ky. 

Professor  S.  Y.  ESQUIVEL,  Palmore  Institute,  Chihuahua,  Mexico. 

The  Rev.  ALAN  EWBANK,  M.  A.,  Secretary,  South  American  Missionary  Society, 
London. 

Mr.  PIARRY  E.  EWING,  Secretary,  Young  Men’s  Christian  Association  of  the  University 
of  Buenos  Aires. 

The  Rev.  SAMUEL  RHEA  GAMMON,  D.D.,  Institute  Evangelico,  Lavras,  Brazil. 

The  Rev.  J.  W.  HARRIS,  President,  Polytechnic,  Institute,  San  German,  Porto  Rico. 

The  Rev.  GEORGE  P.  HOWARD,  Sunday  School  Secretary  for  South  America,  Monte¬ 
video. 

The  Rev.  JOHN  HOWLAND,  D.D.,  President,  Colegio  Internacional,  Chihuahua,  Mexico. 

Miss  MARTHA  BELL  HUNTER,  Colegio  Americano,  Barranquilla,  Colombia. 

Mr.  P.  P.  PHILLIPS,  Secretary,  Young  Men’s  Christian  Association,  Buenos  Aires. 

The  Rev.  J.  W.  PRICE,  Presiding  Elder,  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South,  Uruguayana, 
Brazil. 

Miss  LELIA  ROBERTS,  Principal,  Colegio  Normal,  Saltillo,  Mexico. 

Professor  T.  H.  P.  SAILER,  Ph.D.,  Teachers  College,  New  York. 

The  Rev.  J.  W.  SHEPARD,  Rio  de  Janeiro  Baptist  College  and  Seminary. 

The  Rev.  P.  FLORES  VALDERRAMA,  Director,  Instituto  Metodista,  Puebla,  Mexico. 

President  W.  A.  WADDELL,  D.D.,  Mackenzie  College,  Sao  Paulo,  Brazil. 

The  Rev.  J.  E.  WASHBURN,  Director,  The  American  Institute,  La  Paz,  Bolivia. 

The  Rev.  J.  SMYTH  WOOD,  Director,  Evangelical  Union  of  South  America,  London. 


IV.  LITERATURE 
Chairman 

Professor  ANDRES  OSUNA,  Superintendent  of  Department  of  Spanish  Literature,  Board 
of  Missions,  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South,  Nashville,  Tenn. 

Vice-Chairmen 

The  Rev.  JOHN  H.  RITSON,  M.  A.,  Secretary,  British  and  Foreign  Bible  Society,  London. 
Mr.  JAMES  WOOD,  President,  American  Bible  Society,  New  York. 

Executive  Committee 

The  Rev.  JOHN  M.  KYLE,  D.D..  former  Missionary,  Presbyterian  Church  in  the 
U.  S.  A.,  Brazil,  Lowell,  Mass. 

The  Rev.  JUDSON  SWIFT,  D.D.,  Secretary,  American  Tract  Society,  New  York. 

The  Rev.  G.  B.  WINTON,  D.D.,  Editorial  Secretary,  Board  of  Missions,  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  South,  Nashville,  Tenn. 

The  Rev.  W.  I.  HAVEN,  D.D.,  Secretary,  American  Bible  Society,  New  York. 

The  Rev.  A.  G.  BAKER,  Baptist  Convention  of  Ontario  and  Quebec,  La  Paz,  Bolivia. 


The  Rev.  ERNESTO  BAROCIO,  Templo  Bautista,  Monterey,  Mexico. 

The  Rt.  Rev.  CHARLES  B.  COLMORE,  D.D.,  Protestant  Episcopal  Bishop  of  Porto 
Rico,  San  Juan,  Porto  Rico. 

Mr.  P.  A.  CONARD,  Associate  Continental  Secretary  for  South  America,  Young  Men’s 
Christian  Associations,  Montevideo. 

Mr.  JOHN  DAVIDSON,  Director,  The  Evangelical  Union  of  South  America,  London. 

The  Rev.  J.  E.  DAVIS,  Manager,  Publishing  House,  Southern  Baptist  Convention,  Leon, 
Mexico, 

The  Rev.  CHARLES  W.  DREES,  D.D.,  Bible  Revision  Committee,  Madrid,  Spain. 

The  Rev.  ROBERT  ELPHICK,  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  Valparaiso,  Chile. 

Dr.  W.  E.  ENTZMINGER,  Southern  Baptist  Convention,  Rio  de  Janeiro. 

The  Rev.  JUAN  ORTS  GONZALEZ,  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  U.  S.,  Sagua  la 
Grande,  Cuba. 

The  Rev.  DANIEL  HALL,  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  Buenos  Aires. 

The  Rev.  J.  P.  HAUSER,  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  Mexico  City. 

The  Rev.  ERIC  LUND,  Editor,  “RevIsta  Homiletica,”  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

Dr.  ALBERTO  NIN-FRIAS,  Author  and  Diplomat,  Montevideo. 

The  Rev.  CORNELIUS  H.  PATTON,  D.D.,  Secretary,  American  Board  of  Commis¬ 
sioners  for  Foreign  Missions,  Boston,  Mass. 

The  Rev.  J.  A.  PHILLIPS,  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South,  Mexico,  San  Antonio, 
Texas. 

The  Rev.  W.  A.  ROSS,  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  U.  S.,  Brownsville,  Texas. 

Mr.  R.  D.  SMITH,  Secretary,  Bible  House  of  Los  Angeles,  Los  Angeles,  Calif. 

The  Rev.  WILLIAM  WALLACE,  D.  D.,  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  U.  S  .A.,  Vera 
Cruz,  Mexico. 

V.  WOMEN’S  WORK 
Chairman 

Miss  BELLE  H.  BENNETT,  President  Woman’s  Missionary  Council,  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  South,  Richmond,  Ky. 

V  ice-Chairman 

Mrs.  IDA  W.  HARRISON,  LL.D.,  Vice-President,  Christian  Woman’s  Board  of  Missions, 
Lexington,  Ky. 

Secretary 

Miss  MARIA  L.  GIBSON,  Woman’s  Missionary  Council,  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
South,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

Executive  Committee 

Miss  IRENE  T.  MYERS,  Ph.D.,  Dean  of  Women,  Transylvania  University,  Lexing¬ 
ton,  Ky. 

Mrs.  R.  W.  MacDONNELL,  Home  Secretary,  Woman’s  Missionary  Council,  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  South,  Nashville,  Tenn.  (Advisory  Member  of  Committee). 

Mrs.  W.  C.  WINSBOROUGH,  Superintendent,  Woman’s  Auxiliary  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  the  U.  S.,  Atlanta,  Ga. 

Miss  ELIZABETH  R.  BENDER,  Secretary,  Women’s  Foreign  Missionary  Society  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  New  York. 

Mrs.  FRED  SMITH  BENNETT,  Vice-President,  Council  of  Women  for  Home  Missions, 
New  York. 


Miss  LAURA  CLAY,  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  Lexington,  Ky. 

Mrs.  C.  E.  CONWELL,  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society,  Mexico  City. 

Srta.  ELISA  CORTfiS,  Secretary,  Young  Women’s  Christian  Association,  Buenos  Aires. 

Miss  MABEL  HEAD,  Secretary,  Women’s  Missionary  Council,  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  South,  Nashville,  Tenn. 

Miss  MILLER,  The  Evangelical  Union  of  South  America,  London. 

Mrs.  FRANK  J.  MILLER,  Chairman,  Editorial  Committee,  Woman’s  American  Baptist 
Home  Missionary  Society,  Chicago,  Ill. 

Miss  MARY  IRENE  ORVIS,  Christian  Woman’s  Board  of  Missions,  San  Antonio,  Texas. 
Srta.  JUANA  PALACIO,  Mexico  City. 

Miss  MARY  PICKETT,  American  Friend’s  Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  Brownsville,  Texas. 

Miss  JANET  NAISMITH  SCOTT,  Secretary,  Woman’s  Foreign  Missionary  Society, 
Presbyterian  Church,  U.  S.  A.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Miss  FLORENCE  E.  SMITH,  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  U.  S.  A.,  Valparaiso  de  Chile. 

Miss  HARRIET  TAYLOR,  Secretary,  National  Board,  Young  Women’s  Christian  Asso¬ 
ciations,  New  York. 

Miss  ELSIE  WOOD,  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  Callao,  Peru. 

Mrs.  WM.  D.  BARBOUR,  Secretary,  Women’s  Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  Presbyterian 
Church,  New  York. 

Miss  IDA  W.  HAYES,  Madero  Institute,  Saltillo,  Mexico. 

Mrs.  JOHN  HOWLAND,  American  Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign  Missions,  Chi¬ 
huahua,  Mexico. 

Mrs.  K.  B.  SHAFFER,  Ph.D.,  Editor,  “Lutheran  Woman’s  Work,’’  Delaware,  Ohio. 

Miss  ELSIE  G.  WALTER,  Secretary,  South  American  Missionary  Society,  London. 

Mrs.  ARTHUR  YEAGER,  San  Juan,  Porto  Rico. 

VI.  THE  CHURCH  IN  THE  FIELD 
Chairman 

The  Rev.  HOMER  C.  STUNTZ,  D.D.,  Methodist  Episcopal  Bishop  in  South  America. 
Buenos  Aires. 

Vice-Chairmen 

The  Rev.  ARTHUR  J.  BROWN,  D.D.,  Secretary,  Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  Pres¬ 
byterian  Church  in  the  U.  S.  A.,  New  York. 

The  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop  HASSfi,  London. 

The  Rev.  WALTER  R.  LAMBUTH,  D.D.,  M.D.,  Bishop,  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
South,  Oakdale.  Calif. 

Secretary 

The  Rev.  GERHARD  J.  SCHILLING,  D.D.,  District  Superintendent,  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  Buenos  Aires. 

Executive  Committee 

The  Rev.  GEORGE  H.  BREWER,  Superintendent,  American  Baptist  Home  Mission 
Society,  Mexico. 

Mr.  J.  H.  WARNER,  Secretary,  Young  Men’s  Christian  Association,  Recife,  Brazil. 


The  Rev.  W.  B.  ALLISON,  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  U.  S.  A.,  Guatemala  City. 

The  Rev.  P.  ARILLANO,  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  U.  S.  A.,  Mexico  City. 

Sr.  J.  LUIZ  FERNANDES  BRAGA,  Jr.,  Chairman,  National  Committee,  Young  Men’s 
Christian  Associations,  Rio  de  Janeiro. 

The  Rev.  C.  S.  DETWEILER,  Superintendent,  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society, 
Ponce.  Porto  Rico. 

The  Rev.  ROBERT  F.  ELDER,  Argentine  Secretary  of  The  Evangelical  Union  of  South 
America,  Tres  Arroyos,  Argentina. 

The  Rev.  J.  FANSTONE,  Director,  Evangelical  Union  of  South  America,  London. 

The  Rev.  F.  C.  GLASS,  Evangelical  Union  of  South  America,  Goyaz  Capital,  Brazil. 

The  Rev.  J.  MILTON  GREENE,  D.D.,  Superintendent,  Cuban  Mission,  Presbyterian 
Church  in  the  U.  S.  A.,  Havana,  Cuba. 

The  Rev.  RAYMOND  S.  HOLDING,  American  Friends’  Board  of  Foreign  Missions, 
Banes,  Cuba. 

The  Rev.  N.  E.  JOYNER,  Director,  Instituto  Laurens,  Monterey,  Mexico. 

The  Rev.  W.  H.  LESTER,  D.D.,  Pastor,  Union  Church,  Santiago  de  Chile. 

The  Rev.  M.  N.  McCALL,  Superintendent  Cuban  Mission,  Southern  Baptist  Convention, 
Havana,  Cuba. 

The  Rev.  JOHN  G.  MEEM,  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  U.  S.  A.,  Rio  de  Janeiro. 

The  Rev.  ARTHUR  H.  MELLEN,  Protestant  Episcopal  Archdeacon  of  Mexico. 

Professor  EDUARDO  MONTEVERDE,  Secretary,  Young  Men’s  Christian  Association, 
Montevideo. 

The  Rev.  TOLVERT  F.  REAVIS,  Christian  Woman’s  Board  of  Missions,  Buenos  Aires. 

The  Rev.  ALVARO  REIS,  Pastor,  Presbyterian  Evangelical  Church,  Rio  de  Janeiro. 

The  Rev.  EUCARIO  M.  SEIN,  Board  of  Home  Missions,  Methodist  ETpIscopal  Church, 
Los  Angeles,  Calif. 

The  Rev.  C.  L.  SMITH,  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South,  Porto  Alegre,  Brazil. 

The  Rev.  S.  M.  SOWELL,  Southern  Baptist  Convention,  Buenos  Aires. 

The  Rev.  THOMAS  B.  WOOD,  D.D.,  retired  Missionary,  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
Tacoma,  Wash. 

VII.  THE  HOME  BASE 
Chairman 

The  Rev.  T.  BRONSON  RAY,  D.D.,  Secretary,  Foreign  Mission  Board,  Southern  Bap¬ 
tist  Convention,  Richmond,  Va. 

Vice-Chairman 

Mr.  HARRY  WADE  HICKS,  Secretary,  Missionary  Education  Movement,  New  York. 

Secretary 

The  Rev.  WILLIAM  P.  SCHELL,  Assistant  Secretary,  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  the  U.  S.  A.,  New  York. 

Executive  Committee 

Mr.  FENNELL  P.  TURNER,  Secretary,  Student  Volunteer  Movement  for  Foreign 
Missions,  New  York. 

The  Rev.  CHARLES  L.  WHITE,  D.D.,  Secretary,  American  Baptist  Home  Mission 
Society,  New  York. 


The  Rev.  CHARLES  M.  BOSWELL,  D.D.,  Secretary,  Board  of  Home  Missions  and 
Church  Extension,  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Mr.  FRANK  L.  BROWN,  Secretary,  World’s  Sunday  School  Association,  New  York. 

•Miss  CARRIE  J.  CARNAHAN,  Secretary,  Woman’s  Foreign  Missionary  Society,  Meth¬ 
odist  Episcopal  Church,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

The  Rev.  ABRAM  E.  CORY,  D.D.,  Secretary,  Foreign  Christian  Missionary  Society, 
Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

Mr.  B.  A.  GLANVILL,  Director,  Evangelical  Union  of  South  America,  London. 

The  Rev.  H.  C.  HERRING,  Secretary,  National  Council  of  Congregational  Churches, 
Boston,  Mass. 

The  Rev.  C.  J.  KLESEL,  Secretary,  Brethren’s  Society  for  the  Furtherance  of  the  Gospel 
(Moravian  Missions),  London. 

Mr.  MARION  LAWRANCE,  Secretary,  International  Sunday  School  Association,  Chicago, 
Ill. 

Mr.  JOSEPH  ERNEST  McAFEE,  Secretary,  Board  of  Home  Missions,  Presbyterian 
Church  in  the  U.  S.  A.,  New  York. 

Miss  KATHLEEN  MALLORY,  Secretary,  Woman’s  Missionary  Union,  Southern  Baptist 
Convention,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Mr.  DELAVAN  L.  PIERSON,  Editor,  “The  Missionary  Review  of  the  World,’’  New  York. 

The  Rev.  C.  J.  RYDER,  D.D.,  Secretary,  American  Missionary  Association,  New  York. 

The  Rev.  EDWARD  LINCOLN  SMITH,  D.D.,  Secretary,  American  Board  of  Com¬ 
missioners  for  Foreign  Missions,  New  York. 

The  Rev.  EGBERT  W.  SMITH,  D.D.,  Secretary,  Executive  Committee  of  Foreign  Mis¬ 
sions,  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  U.  S.,  Nashville,  Tenn. 

Mrs.  J.  McDaniel  STEARNS,  Secretary,  Christian  Woman’s  Board  of  Missions, 
Indianapolis,  Ind. 

Mr.  S.  EARL  TAYLOR,  LL.D.,  Secretary,  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  New  York. 

Mr.  J.  CAMPBELL  WHITE,  Secretary,  Laymen’s  Missionary  Movement,  New  York. 

Mr.  JOHN  W.  WOOD,  Secretary,  The  Domestic  and  Foreign  Missionary  Society  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  In  the  U.  S.  A.,  New  York. 

VIII.  CO-OPERATION  AND  THE  PROMOTION  OF  UNITY 

Chairman 

The  Rev.  CHARLES  L.  THOMPSON,  D.D.,  Chairman,  President  Home  Missions 
Council,  New  York. 

Vice-Chairman 

i  he  Rev.  HENRY  HAIGH,  D.D.,  Wesleyan  Methodist  Missionary  Society,  London. 

Secretary 

Mr.  CFIARLES  E).  HURREY,  Secretary,  International  Committee  of  the  Young  Men’s 
Christian  Associations,  New  York. 

Executive  Committee 

The  Rev.  L.  C.  BARNES.  D.D.,  Secretary,  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society, 
New  York. 

The  Rev.  GEORGE  C.  LENINGTON,  former  Professor  in  Mackenzie  College, 
New  York. 


The  Rev.  WARD  PLATT,  D.D.,  Secretary,  Board  of  Home  Missions,  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

The  Rev.  STANLEY  WHITE,  D.D.,  Secretary,  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  U.  S.  A.,  New  York. 

Mrs.  ANNA  R.  ATWATER,  President,  Christian  Woman’s  Board  of  Missions,  Indian¬ 
apolis,  Ind. 

The  Rev.  ENOCH  F.  BELL,  Secretary,  American  Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign 
Missions,  Boston,  Mass. 

The  Rev.  AMERICA  V.  CABRAL,  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  Porto  Alegre,  Brazil. 

The  Rev.  JULIAN  CASTRO,  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South,  Mexico  City. 

The  Rev.  J.  G.  CHASTAIN,  Southern  Baptist  Convention,  Guadalajara,  Mexico. 

The  Rev.  S.  H.  CHESTER,  D.D.,  Secretary,  Executive  Committee  of  Foreign  Missions, 
Presbyterian  Church  in  the  U.  S.,  Nashville,  Tenn. 

The  Rev.  MATTATHIAS  G6MEZ  DOS  SANTOS,  Iglesia  Presbyteriana,  Sao  Paulo, 
Brazil. 

The  Rev.  EUGENE  RUSSELL  HENDRIX,  D.D.,  Bishop  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  South,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

The  Rev.  SAMUEL  STRICKLER  HOUGH.  D.D.,  Secretary,  Foreign  Missionary 
Society,  United  Brethren  in  Christ,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

The  Rev.  CHARLES  S.  MACFARLAND,  Secretary,  Federal  Council  of  the  Churches 
of  Christ  in  America,  New  York. 

The  Rev.  ALLAN  MacROSSIE,  D.D.,  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  New  York. 

The  Rev.  FRANCIS  J.  McCONNELL,  D.D.,  Bishop  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
Denver,  Colo. 

The  Rev.  M.  T.  MORRILL,  Secretary,  Mission  Board  of  the  Christian  Church,  Dayton, 
Ohio. 

The  Rev.  W.  W.  PINSON,  D.D.,  Secretary,  Board  of  Missions,  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  South,  Nashville,  Tenn. 

The  Rev.  JOHN  H.  RITSON,  M.A.,  Secretary,  British  and  Foreign  Bible  Society,  London, 

Mr.  B.  A.  SHUMAN,  Secretary,  Young  Men’s  Christian  Associations,  Buenos  Aires. 

Mr.  WILLIAM  H.  SMITH,  Secretary,  Foreign  Mission  Board  of  the  Southern  Baptist 
Convention,  Richmond,  Va. 

The  Rev.  CHARLES  E.  TEBBETTS,  Secretary,  American  Friends’  Board  of  Foreign 
Missions,  Richmond,  Ind. 

The  Rev.  W.  H.  TEETER,  Superintendent,  Central  District,  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
Santiago  de  Chile. 

Mrs.  KATHERINE  S.  WESTFALL,  Secretary,  Woman’s  American  Baptist  Home 
Mission  Society,  Chicago,  Ill, 

The  Rev.  J.  D.  WILLIAMS,  Secretary,  Christian  and  Missionary  Alliance,  New  York. 


TAM. 

S.  AMER. 


Congress  on  Christian  Work  in  Latin  America 


A  Congress  on  Christian  Work  in  Latin  America  has  been 
called  to  meet  in  the  City  of  Panama,  February  10-20,  1916. 
While  the  Congress  must  necessarily  be  chiefly  concerned  in 
studying  the  problems  of  Latin-American  life  and  religion,  a 
most  beneficial  reaction  will  undoubtedly  be  felt  on  the  Chris¬ 
tian  work  in  all  the  countries  represented  by  the  delegates.  The 
Committee  on  Arrangements  has  endeavored  to  give  expression 
to  this  thought  in  the  following  statement  of  its  purpose: 

“Realizing  the  ever-increasing  interdependence  of 
the  civilizations  of  the  world,  and  especially  those  of 
North  and  Latin  America,  as  well  as  of  the  continent 
of  Europe,  the  Congress  at  Panama  has  been  called 
for  the  purposes: 


“First — To  obtain  a  more  accurate  mutual  know¬ 
ledge  of  the  history,  resources,  achievements  and 
ideals  of  the  peoples  so  closely  associated  in  their 
business  and  social  life. 

“Second — To  reveal  the  fact  that  these  countries 
may  mutually  serve  one  another  by  contributing  the 
best  in  their  civilizations  to  each  other’s  life. 

“Third — To  discover  and  devise  means  to  correct 
such  defects  and  weaknesses  in  character  as  may  be 
hindering  the  growth  of  those  nations. 

“Fourth — To  unite  in  a  common  purpose  to 
strengthen  the  moral,  social  and  religious  forces  that 
are  now  working  for  the  betterment  of  these  coun¬ 
tries,  and  to  create  the  desire  for  these  things  where 
absent. 


“Fifth — To  discover  the  underlying  principles 
upon  which  true  national  prosperity  and  stabilit}^ 
depend,  and  to  consider  ways  and  means  by  which 
these  principles  may  be  put  in  action  and  made 
effective.” 

‘  The  opportunity  for  such  a  Congress  and  the  need  of  this 
spirit  of  helpfulness  and  mutual  understanding  have  been 
emphasized  by  the  European  war.  The  world  has  been  re¬ 
vealed  as  a  vast  sensitive  plant.  It  must  prosper  or  suffer  as  a 
whole.  Nations  are  learning  to  know  each  other.  Isolation  is 
impossible.  Business  men  realize  this  and  are  getting  together 
in  Pan-American  alliances.  Christian  men  have  a  greater  duty 
to  unite  in  mutual  service. 

THE  SPIRIT  OF  THE  CONGRESS 

Realizing  that  it  was  important  that  the  work  of  this  Con¬ 
gress  should  be  unified  by  a  common  spirit,  if  it  was  to  avoid  the 
dangers  of  misunderstanding,  friction  and  acrimonious  discus¬ 
sions,  which  from  a  spiritual  standpoint  was  most  essential,  the 
following  action  was  taken  by  the  Committee  on  Arrange¬ 
ments  and  adopted  in  a  solemn  moment  of  quiet  and  prayer : 

“This  Committee  strongly  recommends  that  those 
who  are  making  arrangements  for  the  Panama  Con¬ 
gress,  as  well  as  all  writers  and  speakers  at  the  Con¬ 
gress,  bear  in  mind  that,  if  the  best  and  most  lasting 
results  are  to  be  obtained,  while  frankly  facing  moral 
and  spiritual  conditions  which  call  for  missionary 
work  in  Latin  America,  and  while  presenting  the 
Qospel  which  we  hold  as  the  only  adequate  solution 
of  the  problems  which  those  conditions  present,  it 
shall  be  the  purpose  of  the  Panama  Congress  to  rec¬ 
ognize  all  the  elements  of  truth  and  goodness  in  any 
form  of  religious  faith.  Our  approach  to  the  people 
shall  be  neither  critical  nor  antagonistic,  but  inspired 
by  the  teachings  and  example  of  Christ  and  that 
charity  which  thinketh  no  evil  and  rejoiceth  not  in 
iniquity  but  rejoiceth  in  the  truth. 


“In  the  matter  of  Christian  service,  we  will  wel¬ 
come  the  cooperation  of  any  who  are  willing  to  coop¬ 
erate  in  any  part  of  the  Christian  program.  We  should 
not  demand  union  with  us  in  all  our  work  as  the 
condition  of  accepting  allies  for  any  part  of  it.” 

Manifestly  this  will  insure  a  constructive  note  and  a  spirit 
of  Christian  charity  and  fraternal  feeling,  in  the  facing  of  all 
the  facts,  without  which  little  could  be  accomplished. 

As  expressive  of  the  catholicity  of  spirit  of  the  Congress,  the 
Committee  on  Arrangements  has  passed  the  following  resolu¬ 
tion  and  invitation  in  the  earnest  hope  that  those  in  whose 
heart  it  strikes  a  sympathetic  chord  will  join,  by  their  presence 
and  prayers,  in  this  effort  to  establish  Christ’s  righteous  King¬ 
dom  on  the  earth: 

“All  communions  or  organizations  which  accept 
Jesus  Christ  as  Divine  Saviour  and  Lord,  and  the 
Holy  Scriptures  of  the  Old  and  New  Testament  as 
the  Revealed  Word  of  God,  and  whose  purpose  is  to 
make  the  will  of  Christ  prevail  in  Latin  America,  are 
cordially  invited  to  participate  in  the  Panama  Con¬ 
gress,  and  will  be  heartily  welcomed.” 

Those  desiring  further  information  are  invited  to  cor¬ 
respond  with  the  Executive  Secretary  of  the  Congress,  S.  G. 
Inman,  156  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City. 


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